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Description this book provides up to date and comprehensive coverage of the research and application of integrated pest management ipm in tropical regions. Integrated pest management in tropical regions explores the techniques aimed at controlling pests in agro ecosystems sustainably while reducing secondary effects on the environment and on plant animal and human health contextualizes ipm within our current knowledge of climate change and the global movement of organisms. Assesses the impact of ipm related activities in the tropical regions of asia africa and south america discusses the recent status and prospects for ipm to provide new paradigms and directions that ipm must take if it is to be adopted by farmers and governments on the scale necessary to change their current reliance on chemical pesticides . Integrated pest management in tropical regions this book contains 16 chapters focusing on the major arthropod insect and nematode pests of tropical cereals legumes root and tuber crops